crosspostr – Page 290 – half-girl, half-robot

copperbadge:

pancakeke:

hate when people think I know stuff. I dont know anything, I just use Google. I Google simple words because they look like they’re spelled wrong and I cant be sure. I Google how to boil eggs every time I do it. this is who I am.

My boss asked me how I figured out that two of our donors were probably connected through their kids attending school together.

Me: They both had unusual last names, so I googled their last names together. Both surnames showed up on on a Lacrosse team for a high school in the region where they live.

Him: *joking* So we pay you to Google?

Me: Technically you pay me to be better at Google than you are.

Him: Yeah, seems fair.

This is also me, but like, mostly I Google to see if our donors have died so that we don’t write to them and upset their families because uhh we want their money and not to upset them.

It does mean I’m in the situation where we get a regular donation from someone who’s been dead for some time AND I have a photo of their gravestone but like, we have no way to get in touch with any of their family to say “oh hey, fyi we are still getting this donation every year, maybe there is a bank account you didn’t know about”

gretchensinister:

I just look at this and all I can feel is that it’s going to lead me to some fiendishly difficult puzzle that will require 27 pages of notes, a detail from two universes ago, and my dad to solve.

cy-lindric:

Lady of Lothlorien

Anonymous:

Sam! You seem like someone who has more social media etiquette knowledge than me- I have a dear brickspace friend on my Tumblr feed who reblogs a lot of doom’n’gloom political stuff, which upsets me when I see it. I got tumblr blacklist/XKit and it catches about 80% of the stuff I don’t want to see on my feed. But sometimes they reblog twitter screenshots that don’t get caught in my filter because it’s not tagged appropriately. How can I talk to them about it without coming off as a priss?

copperbadge:

ferrousferrule:

copperbadge:

That’s rough! I think you could probably just say to them, “Hey, look, the political stuff you reblog is really important, but I struggle with how much of it there is, and I’m having a hard time reading your tumblr. Is there a tag you could put on all of that stuff? It’s okay if not, but for my own mental health I’m going to need to unfollow you if that’s the case.” I think framing it as “This is something I’m dealing with, and I’m ready to take steps if you can’t, I just don’t want to hurt your feelings” always helps – it’s less accusatory and more about your reaction than their behavior.

Tumblr really needs a mute function. ‘I don’t want to unfollow you, I don’t want to have to go find you again, but I need you to not spam my dash with this stuff, and I’m going to take care of it so you don’t have to worry about it.“. It would be useful for everything from a hyperfixation to a sports event to those occasional dogpiles you have no dog in that just happen on this weirdass site.

I’ve managed pretty well using xkit’s blacklist function, although of course that doesn’t work on mobile. There have been one or two times when someone’s been posting a lot of something untagged or erratically tagged, and I’ve just blacklisted their username for a few days. Of course, that’s presuming the username isn’t like, a super common noun or something.

If you’re approximately 400 years old, you might do what I do and use an RSS reader to follow people’s tumblrs. It only gets tricky around the spookytiems and other times that people change their usernames

kane52630:

At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then
the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show
that we were ever here… but stardust.

Sunshine (2007) dir. Danny Boyle

thomassmcgraw:

Okay but like what about a reverse fake dating trope? Like, two people who are together and go home to their families at Christmas but can’t convince anyone that they’re really a couple & everyone thinks it’s a joke